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Associated PressSchools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and the Education Department will require public school students to take sexual education courses starting after winter break.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Today's "Comment of the Day" was posted by SILive.com user bockoman, to a story about students in public intermediate and high schools being required to take sex education courses beginning this school year.

Said bockoman:

Whether or not the schools teach sex ed to kids is not very significant. When adults are asked when they really began to 'figure things out' they usually say around 8-9 years old. The 11 year olds will not be shocked no matter how much you think they have been 'protected'. Secondly, if they think it will have any impact on teen sexual activity or pregnancy, then they haven't read any of the research. The problem with teens and sex, drugs, etc. is decision making and impaired judgment. Teens get pregnant or AIDS not because they are uninformed. The most common answer is that they were too drunk to care.